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;~,,r ~~~ • • • • `r i et:4 • .• • 'a • 1 , ... „ ; 'Age, ) - , - • , • %' • • • t , , I, pm • I l k, 4 11 . 7 . N,l„ ~,, .., Nu 31 HER 10,5.58. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1826. PRICE SEVEN PENCE. CONTRACT FOR LEVER TARGETS. NAVY-OFFICE, JULY 4, 1826. T HE principal O ffi cers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy do hereby give notice, That on Tunas- DAY, the 20th 'lnstant, at One o'Clock, they will be ready to 'treat with such Persons as may be willing to contract for supply ing His Majesty's Navy with LEVER TARGETS, invented.by Lieutenant Gu= SMITH, R.N. ; to be delivered at Hie Ma je.sty's Dock Yards at Deptford and Woolwich, according to a Pattern, which, together with a Form of the Tender, may be seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party, or an Agent for him, attends. _ _ Every Tender must be accompanied by A Leiter addressed to the Navy Board, and signed by Two responsible Persons, en gaging to become bound with the Person tendering in the Siim of 5001., for the due perforn - iance of the Contract. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. HIS NIA. with that liberality and conde geenaLng kindness with which he has always favoured the objects of The BRITISH INSTITUTION, having placed at the dispo# of the Directors, for the purpose of immediate Exhibi tion, his PRIVATE COLLECTION of PICTURES, from CARLTON HOUSE PALACE, the Gallery is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening. • Admission, It—Catalogue, Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Kceptr. DEBRETT'S PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. rrHE Public are respectfully informed, that a -1111- SUPPLEMENT of this Work is preparing, and will be shortly published, containing the newly created Peers, the Peers of Scotland, whose Titles were restored in the last Session of Parliament,'with-Engravings of their Arms, and Supporters; also an Account of the Births, Deaths, and Marriage., which have taken place since the Publication of the present Edition. Price Is. Printed for Itivingtoni; Egerton; Cuthell ; Clarke.; Long man and Co. ; Cade!! •' Richardson ; Booth ; Booker ; Baldwin and Co. ; Kingsbury and' -CO. ; BOVA& ; Hamilton and Co. ; llatehards ;, Harding; Rod Well and Co. ; Lloyds ; Whittaker ; and Saunders and Co. Yesterday wag published--(particularly adapted for Sehooki), • • The Second Edition of THE 'FRENCH GENDERS, Taught in SIX FABLES; being a plain and easy art of memory, by gch,the Genders of the 15,548 French Nouns may be learned 44 few hours. Written by the Master of a Grammar School — Pr''ice'One Shilling. ,‘‘ A very small, but very useful little book, in which above 'Fifteen. Thousand French Nouns are exhibited, so as to impress their Genders on the Memory, and preVent some of those thou. sand mistakes into which English writers.of the Language are so apt to fall ! !_Literary Gazette, July 8, 1826. Printed' for W. It. Goodluck, 80; Cornhill, London. NEXT TUESDAY, OR NOT AT ALL ! ALTHOUGH the notoriety given to the fact, that State Lotteries will terminate for ever on TUESDAY NEXT, might make it appear unnecessary now to say more upon the subject, yet the patronage so liberally bestowed upon the Offices of BISH, 4, CORNHILL, & 9, CHARING CROSS, _ _ . _ deniands . that the attention of the friends of these establishments should be particularly calledo it. On that day Lotteries will not only cease for ever ; but there will tfien be drawn, for the first and kit time in One Day, SIX Prizes of £BO,OOO, being the only opportunity which will ever be afforded of gaining, as many thou sands have done, a large fortune by a trifling risk. It is not too much to anticipate that in the distribution of the acme splendid Prizes, the usual good fortune will attend Bran's ' Offices, particularly when it is known that there were shared and sold in the last twelve months, five. Prizea of £30,000, Four of X 21,000, and Nine of £20,000, besides numerous others of XlO,OOO, £2,000, £l,OOO, &c., &c. Also in the last Drawing (8d May,)' No. 1,833 - Class B .V 21,000 No. 3,925 - Class A - £21,000 July 11, 1826. &c. &c. &c. NEXT TUESDAY ALL LOTTERIES End for ever ! ft SIVEWIIIGHT, Contractors, most' po sitively assure the Public this is the LAST and ONLY DRAWING that will ever be allowed in the United Kingdom, and all who are disposed to have a farewell venture for one of two' of the SIX of £30,000 ! are respectfully advised to make their purchases immediately. The Scheme contain, for the FIRST and ONLY time since the Establishment of Lotteries, SIX PRIZES OF £30,000, &c.,&e. forming the unequalled Sum of £389,000! And Every Number a Prize : ALL in ONE DAY, NEXT TUESDAY, 18th inst. When Lotteries finish for ever. Tickets a n d Sh ares are se lling by J. and J. Sivewright, Contractors, at their fortunate Offices, No. 37, Cornhill ; 11, Holborn ; and 38, Haymarket, London, where they sold 12,478 a Prize of £30,000 ! 3,1513 a Prize of 21,055 ! And in the very Last Lottery, drawn 3d of May, 1,783 a Prize of 3,925 a Prize of Besides other Capitals in late Lotteries. IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES. T HE BEST COMMENT on the Virtues and Renovating Efficacy of Dr. soLomoN , s BRAYED CORDIAL BALM OF GILEA.D is the Cer tainty that Ladies of Fashion and Respectability find it the most Efficacious Medical, Restorative to be. met with in various, Weaknesses peculiar to their Sex, gently throwing a genial warmth upon the debilitated and relaxed frame, recruiting the decayed spirits, dissipating headache, dulness, and languor, and creating a pleasing vivacity. The great extent to which it is us e d by the Sickly, the Nervous, and the Debilitated, provers its unrivalled mer i t ; to t h ousands of whom i t i s da il y affording relief which no other Medicine has supplied. To those whom early indulgence of the Passions—Dissipa tion, or too great Reliance on Constitutional Strength, have been injurious ; to the Sufferer from Lowness of Spirits, Heavi ness of Mind, Deranged Stomach, Languor, and Incapacity for Exertion ; to those in whom the Digestive and Nervous Systems have been deranged, and consequently labouringunder irregular and .painful action; and to these persona who hav e ruined their Constit u ti ons , an d b rought on a perfect Tubes Dorsal's, by, an immoderate indulgence of their passions; or in their way to the consummation of that deplorable Malady_ are affected with Weaknesses and the Obstruction of certain Eva• cuatlons, this remedy is recommended from ample experienUe as the best reatotative. A very important observa t i on may h e ma de in favour ' of this celebrated Medicine, that unless its (ligation was gentle, safe, and efficacious ; it could not have ontained the unexampled demand it has acquired ; for as it has rarely the great advan tage of a persuasive advocate at the ear of the Patient, so ne. thhag but his conviction of its virtues, by its salutary effects, .can induce p ersevera nce ; an d yet re asonable perseverance is certainly most requisite to enable even the , happiest combinn tions of Chemicals and Galenical% to root out chronic diseionls and rest ore the valetudinarian to health. M uc h more m i g ht be said in just report of it; for great experience has shewn that none need despair, however dangerous their situation may be, when 80 noble, safe, and efficacious a remedy is offered for their relief. c At rnb N .—As many Imitations of this excellent Reined), are on' Sale, the Public will be sure to ask for it as ". Solo mon's," and Look at the Stamp affixed to each Bottle; which has "Sand. Solomon, Liverpool," engraven upon it: nods other is genuine. Patients requiring advice may obtain it by application t4r Gllead-House, accompanied with a remittance of a H. Note. To 1* bokdat- (Jihad-)douse, near Liverpool; of Mr. Johri. Mon, 68, Comhill • Mr. Sanger (late Bacon & Co.), 150, ford.stikieti Mr. WaVd, Holborn ; Mr. Henry blickeill, WhitecilApeb London; and by all the principal, Venders Patent Medicines throughout the United Kingdom, price 11 r. Wilt/14e, fourin one Family Bottle for 33e. t • LADY ERSKINE. We have received the following letter on the sub ject of this unhappy person, and publish it verbatim: Sir,—Noticing in the Mansion-house occurrences Lady Erskine's statement to the Lord Mayor, I am-particularly sorry the widow of so great and illustrious a statesman should he reduced to apparent distress and public appeal. In reverting to those occurrences, and in reply to the Lord Mayor's kind enquiries, believing his Lordship to be ever ready to assist the deservedly destitute and distressed, I beg leave to observe I understand there are four children —two sons abroad, one in • the army, the other in the navy : one daughter under the protection of an amiable lady; the youngest son appears about ten years . old.— Observing this Lady Erskine affirming never receiving any benefit, or least pecuniary aid, from the Earl of Rosslyn and Lord Viscount Duncannon, as trust for his Majesty's bounty, granted respect to the late Lord Erskine's family, these noblemen have to my knowledge, for some time paid to Lady Erskine, through the medium of myself and others previously to iny collecting, prior and since the 6th May, allowed „her l6s., per week, payable through my bands., Thoppyments were a little in arrear to me, owing to a little, advance, it being discontinued for a few weeks, by the Earl of Rosslyn's consistent view to only bring her to a parent's sense or inducement to have the youngest son educated suitable to his birth and station, and for which purpose His Majesty was pleased to grant M. per annum ; and Earl Rosslyn generously offered to contri bute any addition necessarrhimself; and when initiated in his first rudiments, afterwards to procure his admission in Charterhouse school. Earl Rosslyn, Viscount Duncannon, myself, and others, have endeavoured, in vain, to prevail on her for this child's education, which, I regret to relate, she obstinately persists shall not be, appearing more de sirous to keep him in beggary and disgrace, determinedly persisting in keeping him from school. Earl Rosslyn, with the ,urbanity of a gentleman, has always permitted me free access, as her friend, on her business ; offered his personal services, and that his solicitor, at his cost, should' assist her to procure, if possible, the legacy of 3004 per annum, left by her late lord, and requesting to be fa voured with any written statement; but this Lady Erskine insultingly and peremptorily refused, and persisted should not he done. Lady Erskine occasionally and frequently called at my residence, received every due commiseration, civility, and comfort, the house and family afforded. I have taken much pains to assist her, but she does not affirm to the truth, and, I am sorry to remark, is ungrateful to dis interested friends, and much misrepresents facts. • your - early compliance and insertion of these truths, which can be by several particularly verified, in answer to Lady. Erskine's application, and satisfaction to the public. I remain, Sir, your sincere and most obedient servant, SAMUEL CHAMBERLIN. Great Newport-street, Long-acre, July 12. Ma Majesty'. grant was 3001. for herself, and 2001. for the family, under very particular injunctions to thilitrust,— VISCOUNTESS STRANGFORD. ST. PETERSBURG% JUNE 22.—The late Viscountess Strangford died at the hotel of his Excellency the Ilritish Ambassador on Friday morning; the 26th 'May last. This lady was the sister of Sir John Bourke, of Marble Hill, in the county of Galway; Bart. Slie was the maternal aunt to the Marquess of Clanricarde, who was lately married to the only daughter of the Secretary for Foreign Afiiiirs; but she was more distinguished as the wife of Percy Viscount Strangford, whose name for some years has been celebrated in Europe both in the walks of litera- , ture and diplomacy. Sh e h ers elf, a nd h er r elatives, ' being Catholic Irish of high distinction, her premature death will doubtless ex cit e the sympathy and regret of, the people of Ireland. Strongly attached to her hus band, she accompanied him to the Courts of Sweden, 'Turkey, and Russia, where the affability of her man ners, and the unaffected kindness of her disposition, endeared her to all. While in Turkey, these amiable qualities had but too frequent opportunities of displaying themselves. Among the applicants to her kind offices and to her bounty were numerous families of Greeks, whom it was impossible in the first fury of the insurrec tion to countenance or assist openly, but to these unfor tunates her bounty flowed in many a secret channel.— , Slaves were redeemed, domestic affliction consoled, and the objects never knew to • whose kind heart and li beral hand they were indebted. Her wish was to as sist in every way in which she could be useful, of which the following instance is a proof:---One of her children, born at Constantinople, was , vaccinated by matter sent from home, which fortunately succeeded. At her particular .request the virus, in a recent state, was transferred from her child to children in the country, and• thus a fresh supply, secured. There was at this time a populati o n o f about . 1000 Greeks inhabiting, an . archipelago of islands in the . Sea of Mamoru, among whom the small-110 X used periodically to make frightful ravages. They had heard of the efficacy of vac eination as a preventive, but had never proved it. From Lady Strangford's child the cow-peck was introduced among these islamlers, and persons of all ages, from infants to the aged, were vaccinated. Thus by an act of retri butive justice she was enabled to, return to the people of Turkey an improvement of, and a greater blessing than her predecessor, Lady W. Montagu, had derived from them. The cause of Lady Strangford's death, in St. Peters burgh, was an illness that supervened on her confine ment : from this she apparently recovered; and, with her child, seemed to enjoy good health ; but, after some time, she complained of pain and sickness, with a, strong im pression on her mind that her death would he speedy, though her casual ailment gave no cause of a l arm t o h er physicians. Under this fe eling, she quietly prepared for the event. Individually, s he was th e l as t o bj ect o f h er Consideration, and any anxiety she expressed'.was f or h er young • • family " Yet I know , " ,sh e would say, " t h at my little children have a fond and good father —why, then should deatlrgive me a ny concern ?” While conversin _ with a friend one evening,. she w as g asmodic attack, which termin a t e d suddenly Seized with a sp in a state of insensibility, t h a t continued 18 hours, w h en she grad ua lly expired without strug gle.' She had request a ed, in th e event of her dea th abroa d, that it might not b e t that she should be pri marked by any in pomp, bu to the B ' vately interred in the burying-ground a llotted therefore, 11- tish and other foreigners. Her body was, next re moved to the Roman. Catholic, Chapel, thed .. ay solemn funeral service was perffirrned. It was 00 tlus oe, mien that the esteem and 'good-Will she had ra i s ed spon taneously displayed themselves. The immense Ch ape l was crowded with an unbidden congreetiou, among whom were the whole diplomatic body.. rite Ainb.aqs a .. dors of the different Sovereigns of Europe, wi th th eir suites, attended,' not with the indifference of ceremony and parade, but with t h e f ee li ng of perfional friends. t was even propos e d t h at. t h ey themselves should be .the bearers of the body to its last resting-Place* ' but, having been enclosed in a leaden coffin, it was found toe heavYt and was, therefore, conveyed in a hearse to its final abode, where it lies in a green spot shaded with young trees. The Sunday after her decease, . the Reverend Doctor Walidi Domestic Chaplain to his Excellency the Ambas sador,,, preached a sermon on the occasion in the British church. SIR T. STAMFORD RAFFLES. The Papers have recently announced the death of Sir Stamford Raffles. He was not of the order of men to he dismissed with a brief notice. Few men, at his time of life, have descended to the grave who have done their conntrtso much service, and with so little ostentation. The most essential benefit conferred upon society was to him merely an act in the ordinary course of his duty. It is little more than twenty years since the British Govern ment proposed to form a regular establishment at Pulo Penang, alias Prince of Wales's Island, in the eastern sea. The plan was carried into effect under the immediate au spices of the late Lord Melville, then Mr. Dundas. Sir Stamford Raffles was at that period a mere youth, ajunior clerk in the East India House in Leadenhall-street. The place of Secretary, which, by the arrangement, was the third in rank in the new establishment in Prince of Island, was one to which great importance was attached. Various gentle Men, iecommended from the highest guarters, were proposed-to fill it. Mr. Dundas himself, and our late gracious Queen Charlotte, had friends;, but amidst all this powerful competition Mr. Raffles, a mere youth, without any claims but, his talents and good conduct in the office, was appointed to the situation. It is unneces sary to say how high he must have stood in the estima tion of the Directors, to whose good will he was indebted for the appointment. The prospect of every adventurer, who shapes his course to the east, derives a brilliancy from the splendid luminary that meets his eye.. To an ardent' youthful mind, deeply imbued with a love of science, of an enterprising spirit, and lively imagination like that of Sir Stamford Rallies, the prospect must have proved dazzling and enchanting. A short residence in Prince of Wales's island, however, dispersed the dream. 'Writing to a friend, he says,--" When leaving England, I promised to send you some of the valuable curiosities of this place. Alas ! it offers nothing but a bag of pepper; and my health, I am sorry to say, is far from good." In some short time after he relinquished the situation, and re paired to the Continent of India for thebenefit of his health, and his friends not having heard regularly from him, a re port of his death generally prevailed. The cloud, however,' soon dispersed, and accounts from India exhibited him to the eyes of his admiring friends in England in the high of fice of Lieut.-Governor of Java. It appears that on his ar rival on the Continent, he applied himself to learning the language of the country, and had so strongly recommended himself to Lord Minto, by his amiable manners, intern gence, and activity, that that Nobleman availed himself of , his talents in the reduction ofJava, and appointed him to the important office of Lieut.-General of the island, as a reward of his services. How well he conducted himself in that station history will record in its brightest pages. It did:credit - to his country, honour to himself, and con ferred happiness upon the people committed to his care. Had` . Sir StaMford Raffles been one of those men who go to India to amass a fortune, here he had a glorious golden opportunity. There 'was a rich harvest; the accumulation of many years' growth, at his hand, to be gathered 'is ; but his romantic, ardent, generous, and aspiring mind soared above succi grovelling considerations. He thought only of remedying the ablLses Of his sordid predecessors; the Dutch Governors of Java, and Of extending the bless ings of civilization, and 9f a mild and paternal administra tion of its affairs, through that superb island. 'Such was the state of Java, improving in prosperity every day, when the treaty of peace with the Dutch came, and abandoned the island to its old masters. The tears and lamentations of the people on the departure of Sir Stamford Raffles, while they show their gratitude, attest. the *iadom and kindness of his government. The Dutch, with the re-occupatids of the island, re sumed their old rapacious habits; and if British commerce is not now excluded, from the Indian Archipelago, England is indebted to the sagacity, intelligence, and activity of Sir Stamford. Raffles, who defeated their schemes of monopoly by the establishment of the port of Sincapore. On his return from Java to England, he married an interesting young lady, who afterwards accompanied him to Sumatra, in 'which he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Fort-Marlborough, with a net salary of 4,000/. a-year • and after exploring all the natural riches of that island, he sailed with his family, and all the stores of his scientific research, for England, in the Fame, a country ship, but had scarcely lost sight of land when the vessel caught fire, and was, with all his pro peity, totally deitroyed. About eighteen months since he landed with his family in England, with a broken constitution and disappointed expectations; and about this time twelve months, when walking in Saint James's-street, he experienced an attack of apoplexy, the effect of which made a great inroad upon his already impaired health. On Tuesday morning he arose early at his residence , at Highwood-hill, and was soon after found in a state of insensibility et the bottom of the stairs by Lady' Raffles. Medical aid was promptly procured, and every moans resorted to,. to restore animation, but the vital spark had fled. The body was opened, under the direction of Sir Everaid HoMe, the same day, who pro nounced his death to have been caused by apoplexy. It was likewise apparent that the sufferings of the deceased must for some time past have been most intense, brought on by his long residence in India, and in the anxious and zealmis discharged the important duties to which 11 . 3 life was devoted. EXTRACTS FROM PAPERS RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF SIIAPOOREE. Letters from the Governor General in 03uncil at Fort William in Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Com pany, dated 23d December, 1525. 11. Previously to conc l u di n g this despatch, we cannot resist expressing our confident persuasion, that the various repots which have hec„ submitted to the secret Committee relative to the origin, early events, and true causes of the present war, will have satisfied your - Honourable Court, that the Government of Ava was determined, sooner or later, to prosecute its extravagant pretensions to the possession of our eastern districts, at the known hazard of a rupture with the British power, and that under the combination of circumstances and position of affairs which arose nut of the Burmese a g g ressions and hostile d emonstrat i ons i n 1828-24, on the side both of Chittagong and ;Sylliet, recourse to arms could not have been avoided on our part, without exposing our honour, our interests, and the lives anti propeztiea of our subjects, to the most serious, perhaps irreparable, injury. 12. The proceedings of the Burmese in Asaarn had materially a lt ere d t h e relative position of the two powers, and placed the former, its they well knew and often boasted, in a situation the most favourable for making a sudden descent into our territories along the Beiliampooter. 'The establishment of their authority in that country had been in the beginning received with just alarm by the Civil Cornmiasinnee;'.Mr. 1). Scott (one of the most upright and intelligent of your servants), who, well aware of the grasping, restless, and ambitious spirit which actuated the Bur mese Councils, distinctly foresaw and pointed out the danger threatening the whole line of our Eastern frontier, from time stag change of ma s t ers , -w hi c h t h e principality o f A ssam had exne rienmd. It is worthy of remark) that in th e early e of our disputes, the B urmese C hi e f s in Assam de c l are d, t h at in 1822 , Ilfengee Melia Sil va , at t h e head of an army o f 20,000 men , deliberately meditated the plunder of Gowalparch and the adja cent country, where no British fore: could ever be assembled adequate to check his progress: and they made it matter of re proach against the English, that, notwithstanding the forbear ante shown by them on that occasion, we were assembling troops to oppose their designs upon Cacha and Jyntia. 13. On the side of Chittagong the Burmese were acting syste matically upon a plan of slow and gradual encroachment in pro secution of their favourite object of acquiring a footing in Bengal, after they had conquered all the intervening petty states, fully prepared to come to issue with us wheneier we should make a stand to repel their advances. The seizure and detention of the commissariat elephant hunters during the two successive years, whilst engaged in the prosecution of a most important branch of the public duties of that department, near Ramoo and Gurgun nes ; and the insolent bearing and language assumed on those, as on many former occasions, by the Arracan Authorities, in their communications with the local British officers, formed in them selves no light grievance. With respect to Shapooree, lying, as it does, indisputably and undisputed, on the British side of the main channel of the Ntuif, that island,. independent of the written evidence forthcoming on the public records, was prima facie, from its position, a portion of the Honourable Company's terri tory ; and it behoved the Burmese, under such circumstances, to prove their title to the place by some testimony more valid and convincing than mere assertion. We were in possession of the ground on which a part of our Sipahees had been posted ; it had always been considered by us, and by the Mugs, to form a por tion of our dominions, at least since 1790, A.D. We possessed written and recorded testimony on our aide of a conclusive nature, and further, we invited investigation, and we were ever ready to enter into fair and amicable discussion. The Burmese, on the contrary, never offered or pretended to produce an atom of proof, and it is worthy of remark, that they rested their claim to the island of Shapooree mainly on the same ground that they asserted a title to Ramoo, Chittagong, Dacca, and the eastern districts of Bengal, viz. That the whole once belonged to the Mug Raja of Arracan, "whose pagodas and chowkees were there." It is true, that the Raja Tooroo Wyn deputed, a messenger to the Presi dency in August, 1828, with a letter to the Governor General, demanding, in peremptory and menacing language, the removal of the British guard from Shapooree ; but, without waiting even to. learn the result of his remonstrance, he proceeded, in less than a month afterwards, to carry his threats of applying force into execution, under the express orders, as was carefully promul gated, of his sovereign, the King of Ava. 14. It is now well known from the European residents at Rangoon, as well as from the, later despatches of Sir Archibald Campbell, that at an early period of our discussions with the local Burmese officers, a powerful party at the Court of Um merapoora, headed by the Maha Bandoola, seized that opportu nity of strongly urging the King to assemble an army for the purpose Of enforcing his visionary claims on the eastern district of Bengal, and that the most extensive preparations were making its Ava for a war of Conquest and aggression during some months previous to the actual rupture between the two States. The for midable Burman army, which afterwards invaded Chittagong, was assembled to' overrun the southern districts; whilst the com bined forces from Assam and Munnipore, after establishing them , selves securely Cacher and Jynta, were prepared to lay waste the districts of Sylhet and Tipperah, Threatened as we were simultaneously at so many and such vulnerable points, by the hostile demonstration and arrogant pretensions of a Government proverbial for its ignorance, barbarism, and untractableness, which had refused to listen to our petitions, as it insolently termed the soleMn remonstrances of the Governor-General in Conned, and referred us to its victorious Generals for an answer, an appeal to arms on our side would, we are persuaded, have been inevitable and fully justifiable from the necessity of the case, even had our right to the island of Shapooree been far less clear and substantial than is undoubtedly the fact. Had we revolved to pursue tempo rising policy under such circumstances, we must, most unwisely, and with serious loss of reputation in the eyes of all India, have tamely submitted.to aggression and . insult, thus augmenting the insolence and audacity of the Burman nation ; and we should as: suredly have been compelled to appeal to terms in the end, and at a time when we might have been engaged in other quarters, and the plans and measures of our opponent would at all events have been more matured. „ 15. It is well worth while to consider a little in detail the im mediate and direct sacrifices which we must have made to pur chase a temporary and precarious peace, after the conduct pur sued by the Burmahs in 1825-24. al. In the first place, we must have relinquished our claim to the forest land at the.back .1 Ramon and Gurgunnen, which the Company's elephant hunters had frequented for years, as a part of the British territory, otherwise the opposition made by the Burmese, and the repeated seizure and imprisonment of the ser vants belonging to one of our public establishments, must neces. sarily have induced frequent angry and irritating remonstranees on our part, quite incompatible with the permanent maintenance of friendly relations. Secondly, We must tamely have abandoned our right to an island which, however inconsiderable in size and actually unpro ductive, had nevertheless been often the subject of notice on the publics proceedings, and stood recorded as a portion of the British territory. Thirdly, We, must have patiently endured the insult and wrong offered to us in the attack and slaughter of a party of the Com pany's troops, stationed nn Shapooree, no less to preserve that which we considered, and had declared to be our undoubted right, than to protect our peaceable subjects, in the vicinity, from murder and plunder. Fourthly, We must have witnessed, in passive silence, the pas sage of the Burmese across the natural mountain harrier, which so distinctly separates the two empires, and their intrusion into the plains of Bengal ; their subjugation of Cachar, a country, in its population, language, institutions, and geographical position, essentially a part of Bengal, and the legitimate Rajah of which then actually resided under our protection; and also the establish ment of their authority in Jynthia, another petty chiefship, which had long been intimately connected with, and was essentially a, dependent of, the British Government. Finally, we must have tolerated, without the slightest resist ance, their occupation of a position which placed the richest part of the district of Sylhet and the Sudder station itself completely at their mercy, in the then state of our military force, which gave . them the command of the Somme, as well as of the Berhampooref rivers ; and which, whatever number of troops we might have collected for our defence, would infallibly have led to heavy loss of revenue, the serious interruption of cultivation, and the per manent flight of many of our Ryots, from their homes, through the dread universally inspired by the proximity of that sanguinary, barbarous, and unpitying race. Is it to be believed, when the peculiar .character of the government and the people of Ava, and the nature of their pretensions on our eastern districts, are duly weighed, that in such a state of irritating, and to our sub., jests alarming contact, or rather collision, we could have much longer delayed to draw the sword in self-defence, whatever ex- tent of petty outrage and encroachment we might have resolved to tolerate, in the vain hope of avoiding the necessity of war ? And it; by the intrusion of this arrogant and untractable race be yond the limits which yelature had placed between us, we were forced into a relative position, which rendered any long maintes name of peaceful nations not only precarious, but in truth ins practicable, was there any thing at the time in the political aspect of affairs in India, or the condition of our power and rea e ureee , which could have required or justified our overlooking a succession of positive, though perhaps, separately considered, trifling acts of insult and aggression, in the idle speculation that, by recourse to ight c e t o o n l i s it t u l , i t e o s f tai t e he of en aff er a n i y r: b itn ro d eg n l o s t t t te h i r n e p a e te ra n r e y d us, )e d a l us e o n i t i s e; we or later n a ‘ v % e 'e rt confidently eenvtlily inevitablythat t wer i tll 6, 3 e, netw ithstandieg all the embarrassment and suffering which aboutlbl a a ::eaebkoAivnneg"obyft:enniac:t'tleweraenfiddeeliberately and conscientiously sf. y have been produced by, the war, anti to which none can be more painfully alive than ourselves, that we ahould have unworthily as crificed the high interests committed to our charge, if we had liti 7 7 . 4,a p i i n se st pe tl :i e os s l ta s t e e le o e f ted Ave fir the declaration of war, and the w ha e ve htt l : e l n ea ni ve mi t i o edti an on d measure longer d deferred sendingth e declaration alielp had b received previous to the she theme of frequent (vulture, as if in reality any option had us trouble e e f ir t y r i e n ll co o t h n i n E ui r a re l c ie p h ee C ich ts otir % t ve N O Vi n til he in Arracan ; and we judged, c in h g aracter of the people, that there month of March, 1824, had distinctly apprised us that a power:. Imi w ti aa irnen li ti til lne r :se ch fr an oarnr :te Wtoh t w.e t as i o i hl eir tic°nalletcet relinquishing their designs on the Catcher side, although in the first instance repulsed, At the sam e time we knew too well how utterly vain and futile would be any plaii vtotig°aheßfnereoavinpsgrooleilminlikcition of for protecting Chittagong, Tipperah, and Sylhet, diming the ap proaching hot weather and rains, by any amount of force which we could have ventured to station in their noxious and pestilen tial swamps and jungles. We felt convinced, therefore, that our only prospect of drawing off the Burmese from the project of in vasion, which we believed them to meditate at that particular season, as the fittest for their purpose, and compelling them to direct their attention to the defence of their own territory, was the equipment of a powerful expedition to seize and hold, temporarily, their principal sea-port, the second town of their empire, whence, at the same time, we might hope to teach at► impressive and salutary lesson of our power and resources. Our success in the first of the 'above objects, if not complete, was at least very considerable, so much so, that we conscien tiously believe the Rangoon expedition to have saved the China gone district from premeditated devastation and ruin, it' indeed it did not ward off still more extensive and alarming mischiefs. We are firmly and deeply persuaded, that the invasion of Chit tagong *as no consequence of our proclamation of war, the efflcial promulgation of which, in all probability, was utterly unknown to the Burmahs. A large force had been for months Concentrating in Arracan, by the different routes leading from AVa, under the Naha Runde*, fully bent on invading the Bri tish territory, with the views and motives already explained in precang paragraphs.—Scarcely had the Bundoola crossed the Naef, when the first reports reached himself of the appearance of a British armament in the Irawodili, and at the moment when the . small and inadequate force, injudiciously left without support a t Ramos, was overpowered and destroyed, the fall of Rangoon became fully known in the Burman camp. The above news was rapidly followed by accounts of our conquest of Cheduba and Negrais. It was this intelligence that paralyzed the movements of the Bundoola's really formidable army, which induced him to remain at Rambo°, until he should learn the pleasure of his master the King of Ava (into whose imagination and calculations it had never previously entered for a moment, that we should dare to attack a principal town of his dominions), and which finally caused his precipitate retreat to Ava, when the repeated successes of the British arms in the vicinity of Rangoon began to give to the Burmese a juster notion of the character of their foe. The force of the enemy in Cachar would, we are fully satisfied, have been similarly withdrawn, had not the state of the country ten dered their retreat physically impossible earlier than the month of October. 19. With respect to the second abject, although the results have failed to equal our anxious and not unremovable hopes, we must ever maintain that the formation of an armament against Rangoon, and the coasts of Arracan and Tenamerim, was in fact the only measure which could have been adopted, calculated to make an early and decided impression on our enemy, and to in spire him with a just sense of our power and resources. It wall 'fair also to speculate, as we did, that such a measure, combined with the liberal and moderate terms of accommodation wind' we simultaneously offered to the Court of Ava, would have brought that Government to reason, and induced it to terminate a con test, which, it would then see, could not be Prolonged without infinite cost, and suffering to the Burmese nation at all events, howeVer their invaders might fare. 20. Regarding the season of the year, at which the expedition was equipped, besides the reasons above advanced for despatching it as early as possible after it become evident that hostilities, and that the exposure of our territories to hoetile invasion, could not be avoided nor otherwise provided against, we beg to observe, that we had received no information which could lead us to be lieve the 'climate of Rangoon at all peculiarly unhealthy during the rains ; and we now feel ourselves fully instilled in asserting, after the experience of the season of 1825, that it is really not so. The very extensive and melancholy sickness which prevailed in Sir Archibald Campbell's army, from July to November 1524, had its first origin in an epidemic fever, of a casual, not local character, which visited Rangoon in the month of June, as it did Calcutta. We may remark incidentally, that precisely the same fever has this season raged in Upper India. The effects of site above epidemic, of course, impaired the health of the men gene rally, and rendered hundreds, who would otherwise have escaped, wholly unable to stand the severe service and privations which ensued. The want of fresh meet and other wholesome food, in itself sufficient to have produced extensive sickness, infinitely ag gravated the evil, an►d tl►is was to be ascribed mainly to the entire desertion of the place by its inhabitants, an event which could not have been anticipated. Under a happier combination of circum. stances, equally beyond our controul or calculation, we have no hesitation in saying, that the expedition to Rangoon would have not only produced, as it actually has done, much of the good we anticipated, but would have been unattended with any of th ns . painful and melancholy Names in the situation of the army, which cut so deep a gloom over the early stages and operations of the war. 21. It would lead to too great detail, if we proceed to point out all the other considerations which induced us to fit out the expedition during the south-west monsoon. The main part of the force was, of necessity, to be collected on the coast, where, during the first two months of the favourable season, vie. from 15th October to 15th December, ships cannot, with safety ) ply. Any great delay in despatching the armament would have . ggiveil the enemy time to prepare for defence, and obstruct the passage of the river, whilst we should thereby have sacrificed the object contemplated, of making an ,early move upon th e capital, an d should, in effect, have had to contend with the whole Burmese force, at a much later period of the year. Thus, the first cold season would have passed away without our being enabled to ad vance to PoOnie, and the ensuing season of the hot weather and rains would still have overtaken our army at. Rangoon, and have entailed all those hardships to which we are accused of wantonly exposing our gallant troops, by despatching the expedition in April and May. 22. Your Honourable Court will, we trust, pardon the digres sion we have fallen into, in submitting the above general ()Ner vations, on this the first occasion of our addressing you relative to the Burnish war; and should we happily succeed thereby in placing before you, in their real and just light, any of those . points which have been so studiously assailed and misrepresented in the periodical publications of England, the object of which we pro posed to ourselves in entering upon them will be most fully and satisfactorily answered. 23. It may be proper to add, that such of the members of the present government as were not parties to the transactions above related to, will not, of course, by their signatures to this letter, b w ie hi th ch e h o a o v v e er bezt . be understood to express their personal knowledge of ail the facts therein mentioned, or their original concurrence in Measures which, at the time of their adoption, were not made known to them. But they have no hesitation in recording their unquali sfitaedtedac,Ptivieit7.l7tre sa in nc ti t l i e on ge o n f er t a h l e v ßi iewl ght 4 Ho l tura cy General, in this &vetch. We have the honour to be, with the greatest respect, Honourable Sirs, Your most faithful humble Servants, AMHERST. J. H. HARINGTON. W. B. BAYLEY. Fort William, December 23, 1026 (From the Bury Gazette.)---Our 4owrisnutu, Mr. Hancock, who requested permission, some months ago, to present to his Majesty a beautiful cabinet of his own manufacture, made from an elm tree of b'uf folk growth, has been munificently rewarded. Mr. Hancock has received a letter which we have pennis sion to transcribe:— _ - - .Carlton Ilouse, 10th July, 1026 Sir—l am commanded to acquaint you, that the King has been graciously pleased to comply with your desire, MO, to accept the Ctibillots prepared by You and forwarded to Carbon 'louse for the purpose of being presented to his biotet.Y.' His Majesty is gratified with your dot-dill Attention') and has further commanded me to transmit to you a draft (which t en. dose) for one hundred guineas," its a twat of his Majesty's gra, c i ouis a pprobation. I have rho houour to be, si r , Your very obedient Servant, THOMAS MARRABLE. To Mr. ii con', BarY SL DlUMlld's.